What is IGLUS?

Main goals

IGLUS is a non-profit initiative of EPFL and selected partners, seeking to help cities better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the governance of their infrastructures with respect to the dimensions Efficiency, Sustainability, and Resilience.

Research platform

IGLUS measures the performance of urban systems in terms of their efficiency, sustainability and resilience and more generally in terms of the quality of life and the competitiveness of cities. These performance indicators are key in determining how well the urban infrastructure systems are governed and coordinated. IGLUS is a platform for cities, city officials and city managers who are seeking to improve the performance of their urban systems. They will find on this platform answers to The platform gathers various stakeholders who are implicated in city governance (see partners) in order to solve their governance challenges through state-of-the-art research and the Executive Master Program (see right).

Executive Master

The IGLUS Executive Master is a unique degree offering a comprehensive and professional approach to the governance of Large Urban Systems. Through six modules, the Master program focuses on six key challenges facing urban development (social, financial, cultural, technological, environmental and metropolitan), each explored in a different city and within the scope of one of the performance dimensions (sustainability, efficiency or resilience).

Professional Training

The IGLUS Global Training Series consists of six training modules of two weeks that take place in six different cities across the globe. You can enrol in any of the IGLUS Training Series modules to obtain a certificate of attendance, and to serve as your gateway to the IGLUS Executive Master degree.

Events

As a part of the IGLUS initiative, the MIR Chair of EPFL organizes events in order to facilitate a dialogue among scholars, city managers, city officials, infrastructure service providers and national authorities.

Currently, we offer two types of events:

Workshops, promoting the exchange of knowledge among researchers and practitioners on IGLUS-related topics

Research Seminars, designed to gather young researchers on IGLUS- related topics.